"Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream." - W.C. Fields"...a map is a dream engine ... people dream on maps," - Christophe Aguiton, Researcher"You can only be as good as you dare to be bad." - John Barrymore"(Reflective learning = learning from the past.) Being present and playful means getting ready to learn from the future." - BFchirpy"A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion." - ?

"I am still learning" - (Favorite saying of) Michelangelo"You can change your mind, find another way (or shop for a better deal), but don't resist what you know to be yours." - TU"The most effective art-making processes follow the evolution of the works themselves. Process trumps plans." - Robert Genn"I'm seriously considering a career in comedy." - Juan de la Fauve"We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish." - John Culkin

"Automation, integration, classification, innovation, personalization, location will supercede anybody wanting to read or write anything." - AppLocator"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start." - Charles Baudelaire Via "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is." -Isaac Asimov (Via GarinKilpatrick)" Success or no success, joy or no joy, we are alone. And it is to this private struggle that we must consign our energy, our focus, and our lives." - Robert Genn"It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs." - Vaclav Havel, playwright

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live." - Vincent van Gogh"Whatever you give, you get." - TU"Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?" -?"The only thing that matters is the velocity of the spread of your ideas. Which will determine whether or not they will have “escape velocity” or not." - Via"Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture." - Vaclav Havel, playwright

(Online) Enlargements & Poster Printing"It's the persistence and determination of the seemingly mortal dreamer who steadfastly holds a new thought in mind, either of the creation or of its inevitable success, and moves with it, even while the rest of the world is content dreaming their father's dreams. This is what is admired..." - TU"A lot of prior visualization and painterly goal-setting are not always good for our art." - Robert Genn"If I wasn’t falling at least once a day in training, I wasn’t trying hard enough." - Via"To choose your path, you must start to walk it." - The Sage (from The Laws of Spirit: By Dan Millman)"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths." - Steven Wright

"There are occasions when merely having your name added to a concert schedule may be interpreted as a political act that resonates more than anything that might be sung." - Elvis Costello Via"Actions now create the past, and design the future." - mindmapdrawer "A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”– Antoine Saint-Exupery"The boundary between artist, computer programmer, and mathematician is becoming ever more blurred." - Lewis Dartnell "The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away." - Linus Pauling

“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.” – Henry Miller "Maps are part of debates around subjects such as resources, territoriality, identity and migration." - Via "I live at Raw and Wild. It’s that way." - R.B. Wild (after tomwaits)"The birds they sing at break of day, 'Start again...' I hear them say." -Leonard Cohen"And his trails do not fade." - Vannevar Bush (on Facebook, sort of, in 1945. Too late for privacy).

"It doesn't have to be hard, or take a lot of time." - TU"Nature is the Art of God." - Sir Thomas Browne"You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you." - Via @J_Canfield"Modern computer technology has brought multimedia to the limelight as a new communication form (quite possibly the first original communication form of the computer age)." - Via"To Change Effectively, Change Just One Thing." - HarvardBiz

"You only see what you believe to be there." - R.B. Wild"Changing what you have comes from changing who you are. And changing who you are comes from changing what you think." - The Universe""Run the damned experiment." - Vandy Van Wagener Via “If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it.”– Gordon MacKenzie"The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute." - Gil Stern

"Trust yourself (you know)." - The Universe"When gossip grows old it becomes myth." - Stanislaw Lec, Polish writer"Every team needs a deviant, someone who can help the team by challenging the tendency to want too much homogeneity, which can stifle creativity and learning. Deviants are the ones who stand back and say, 'Well, wait a minute, why are we even doing this at all? What if we looked at the thing backwards or turned it inside out?'" - Via"If you don't admit many-worlds, there is no way to have a coherent picture." - Vaidman"A confused mind always says 'no'." - diamondsf

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it." - Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605"For the earnest student, taking responsibility means never forgetting to have fun (Seriously)." - The Universe"I've got my own double cross to bear." - Tom Waits "The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year." - Mark Twain"Are you building a pain killer or a vitamin? (Pain killers get funded. Harder for vitamins.)" - Tim Jackson

"What a wealth, what a grandeur of thought may spring from what slight beginnings." - H.J. Baker"Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers." - pickover"You're the kind of person, Who's hard to forget, A one-in-a-million To the people you've met.Your friends are as varied As the places you go, And they all want to tell you In case you don't know:That you make a big difference In the lives that you touch, By taking so little And giving so much!" - ?"Swipe from the best, then adapt." – Tom Peters"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers." - Aristophanes, Plutus, 388 BC

(Definition) 'Iconocentrism' :the belief or attitude that images (or icons) are or should be the central element in the universe.

(Poem)"The Sons of Martha" by Rudyard Kipling"You can have it all. In fact, it's all already yours." - TU"Fools [Jesters] have a license to say what other people would be hanged for, ... and to generally provide balance to the kingdom by breaking the rules and thereby allowing an outlet for forbidden insights, behaviors, and feelings." - Via "Scientific discoveries are like orgasms: there are no bad ones!" - Björn Brembs"Twitter gives the illusion of power, because very few of your 'followers' are reading most of your tweets." - pickover"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next." - Jonas Salk

"Ideas never come to mind surrounded by white space." - R.B.Wild"The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on." - Rollo May"Maybe not earning a living as an artist is really the way to success." - Via"What Scripture is to the educated, images are to the ignorant, who see through them what they must accept. They read in images what they cannot read in books." - Pope Gregory the Great, sixth century"If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong." - Charles Kettering

"The reason I got to the top is that the top isn't very high." - Damien Hirst, British artist"If it’s not crazy, it’s not worth pursuing." - Via "Business people don’t need to understand designers better; they need to be designers." - Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at The University of Toronto"The number of twitter followers you get is based more on "who you are" rather than on the quality and number of your tweets." - pickover"Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there." - E. H. Gombrich (1909-), British art critic / historian